Facts and figures

Women at the Wii bakery in Kitui. Money from the bakery is used to care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. [Noreen Lockhart]

Global figures, regional figures, statistics on testing, treatment, funding, orphans and conflict

Global Totals

Source: UNAIDS ‘Global Facts and Figures’ December 2006

• 39.5 million - people living with the virus worldwide.
• 4.3 million - people newly infected in 2006 alone
• 2.9 million - killed by AIDS in 2006.

Regional Totals

Source: UNAIDS ‘Global Facts and Figures’ December 2006

- Nearly three quarters of all deaths resulting from AIDS occur in sub-Saharan Africa.

Life Expectancy

Source: Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health, Policy Developments and Indicators 2005, UNFPA and Population Reference Bureau

• 46 years - Life expectancy of a baby born in Zambia in 1990.
• 33 years - Life expectancy of a baby born in Zambia in 2002.

Testing

• 10% - Of people living with HIV worldwide who know they are infected. (World Health Organisation, May 2004)

Gender

• 60% - The percentage of people living with HIV worldwide aged 15-24, who are women.
• In sub-Saharan Africa this figure rises to 75% (UNIFEM).

Labour

• 19.9m – people of working age in Africa who have been lost to HIV or AIDS (2005).
• 2.5m – people of working age lost to HIV and AIDS in Africa in 2005, 3.2m worldwide.
• 12% - of the work force in Africa who will be lost to HIV or AIDS by 2015, compared to a worldwide 3.2%.

(All figures from International Labour Organisation, 2004)

Treatment

• 5% - Of pregnant women with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa have access to services which would prevent the virus from infecting their children (UN Millennium Project 2005a)
• 45m – The estimated number of expected new infections (between 2002 and 2010) that would be avoided by the implementation of a comprehensive HIV prevention package. (UNAIDS)
• 15% - of people who need ARV therapy in developing countries who are currently receiving it (according to UNAIDS/WHO ‘3 by 5’ progress report).
• $1,400 (£700) – the cost Medicins Sans Frontiere is paying per patient per year in Kenya for second generation ARVs, compared to just $200 for first generation drugs. ( MSF Statement on Amendment to WTO TRIPS Agreement , 10th December 2005)

Source: WHO ‘3by5’ progress report June 2005

Note: Some numbers do not add up due to rounding

Funding

Source: UNAIDS

• $22bn (£11bn) – amount that would be needed in 2008 if the spread of AIDS in the developing world was to be reversed
• $10bn (£5bn) – amount estimated to be available from all sources for this in 2007
• $1. 035trillion (£500bn) – global military expenditure for 2004, more than 100 times the estimated amount available to tackle the spread of AIDS in the developing world.

For further information visit:

http://www.unaids.org/en/media/fact+sheets.asp

Orphans

Source: Avert (2004)

Epidemic

• 33% - increase in the number of people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia who are living with HIV – the fastest rate of growth in the world.[1] Numbers in the region now stand at 1.5 million, or 0.8% of the population.

Conflict

Source: UNICEF, ‘Children, Armed Conflict and HIV/AIDS’, September 2003

• 14 million – estimated number of children currently under the age of 15 who have lost 1 or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A third of these children live in countries recently affected by armed conflict.

Source: UNAIDS Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS and Conflict, July 2002.

• 17 – the number of countries with more than 100,000 children orphaned by AIDS. 13 of them are involved in conflict or on the brink of emergency.

[1] Increase in two years to December 2004, according to UNAIDS.